BY WILL WILLIAMS
WOLLONGONG — Unions claimed victory over BHP in last week's dispute over individual contracts and workplace safety. After a three-day strike, BHP was forced to delay its contracting out of protective services workers at its Port
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REVIEWED BY PHIL SHANNON
The Tombstone Imperative: The Truth About Air SafetyBy Andrew WeirSimon & Schuster, 2000372 pp, $14.95 (pb)
"Nothing is more important to us than safety", "Safety is our number one priority": all the variations on this
@box text intr = The June 3 demonstrations to free the refugees will be the first nationally co-ordinated actions in support of refugees in Australia's history. It is a tragedy that they are necessary.
Australia offers no welcome haven to those
BY SARAH STEPHEN
In a dawn raid on May 26, state and federal police, immigration officials and Australasian Correctional Management staff descended on the Port Hedland immigration detention centre to seize and remove detainees involved in a May 11
BY PATRICIA CORCORAN & ARUN PRADHAN
"Listen! Please, just for a moment. Who is crying? Who is moaning? Since long ago we detainees at the Woomera Detention Centre have been suffering. We are human ... We have got blood in our vessels like you."
BY MELANIE SJOBERG
Workplace relations minister Tony Abbott has called for an inquiry
into the construction industry, alleging widespread corruption, fraud and
intimidation of workers. What this really represents is a blatant political
BY SARAH STEPHEN
Some media commentators have ridiculed the fact that the Scottish Socialist Party doesn't expect to win any seats in the UK general election on June 7. The unfairly high deposit of 𧺬 combined with the "first past the post"
BY KAMALA EMANUEL
HOBART — In a move that has shocked workers in women's and children's refuges, the Tasmanian Labor government announced plans on May 11 to close one of the four refuges in the south of the state, while the other three will have
BY JOHN GAUCI
SYDNEY — While the federal Coalition government siphons $700 million from public to private schools through its commonwealth state grants act, the NSW Labor government is planning to sell off Marrickville, Maroubra, Hunters Hill and
Mahmood lives in Perth. He was released from Port Hedland detention centre six weeks ago, on a temporary protection visa. Mahmood is Kurdish and lived in Iran.
Mahmood was involved in the Iranian journalists' union and was a student leader in
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